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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
women and meant the difference between survival and starvation for dozens of families. Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL by Roger L. Martin (MBA '81) (Harvard Business Review Press) Martin lays the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
industrial model to the new information economy, said CEOs of incumbent (pre-Internet) companies are trying to compete with dot-coms, "but they get dot-com vertigo. They trust their senses, even after realizing they're wrong, and they get into trouble. We don't know...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
the next decade, so I guess if you want to blame the system, blame me! The problem may be more nuanced. In 1984, I met with a senior manager at AT&T who said they had done market research and concluded,...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
it is very difficult to point to a foundation and say that it has uniquely accomplished a similarly important goal." Herzlinger blamed these problems on the absence of a framework for full analysis of performance and poor disclosure of...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2013
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A Hollywood Backstory
The discomfort our film may have brought about was an attempt to promote awareness, vigilance, and understanding of our children, rather than to oversimplify and assign blame to parents, drugs, bullies, schools, gun laws—or violence in...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
people blamed the financial sector, rightly or wrongly. This time around, the government basically came out swinging with a massive response under President Trump and then a doubling down on that under President Biden. What lessons can...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devastating assets of individual stockholders when these accounting deceptions surfaced. Mills initially explores how the mechanisms that should have protected investors failed. He lays the lion’s share of blame at the feet of CEOs whose...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
one that will get a job done. A leader, Wagoner said, should always save the toughest assignments for herself, shouldering blame for mistakes while giving credit to others for successes. And a leader must keep in mind that “values should...
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- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
forest fires, catastrophic storms, and floods, he shared statistics that placed the lion’s share of the blame on the worldwide dependence on fossil fuels, followed closely by deforestation. He added that deforested areas on Earth add up...
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Margie Kelley
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
first, and those of himself or herself last. It follows then that a great leader is first to take the blame and last to take recognition. This permeates the Marine culture, and still helps guide and inform my decisions and actions...
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- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
mistakes, no matter how good you think you are. All of us make mistakes. The key is how you deal with that. Do you get angry at somebody? That's not going to help. Do you blame somebody that you appointed to do something? Which is...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
said he was surprised when presidential candidate John McCain blamed the nation’s financial crisis on “greed and corruption on Wall Street.” “I don’t think corruption is a major part of the story,” he observed. “Certainly, there were...
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- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
Clubs News Clubs News If capitalism is to blame for climate change, can it also be the best hope to stop it? That’s the paradox that HBS alumni in Southern California confronted in a sold-out, faculty-led roundtable discussion on business...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
airplanes with lots of fuel that were going to fly near New York City. Boston is one of the places where you find planes like that. Now that a span of time has passed, I think it’s clearly recognized that Logan was not to blame for what...
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- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
I'm wired for blame and guilt, I'm afraid. So I'm a tough case, but years, I mean, most of the '90s. Yeah, they were wilderness years. It was tough. It's like, how could I do it? And I've largely moved on from that. It's like, yeah, I'm...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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The Meaning of Ramadi
leader to shoulder blame rather than search for excuses. Everything that happens is ultimately the leader’s responsibility anyway, and promptly taking ownership of a difficult situation means that you can lead your team out of it that...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
of hindsight because the fact that the foam strike was to blame isn’t general knowledge.” A four-person production team led by HBS multimedia producer Melissa Dailey played a vital role in the yearlong collaborative process of creating...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
is extremely serious and just keeps creeping up on us. Critics blame globalization for putting U.S. wages and benefits into a downward spiral. How do we reverse that trend? The idea that we should disengage from the global economy is...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
were blamed for the Estonia disaster, Bemis believes foul play was involved, based on evidence gathered during an unauthorized dive he made to the wreck in 2000. (There is a warrant for his arrest in Sweden as a result.) In the case of...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Breaking Free from Fear of Change
line. This research is aimed at helping individuals and organizations become more successful by changing those behaviors. Can you give some examples of dysfunctional behaviors? Some typical behavioral traps include busyness, which we’ve already touched on; the tendency...
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